
NO SEAS ALGUIEN, A VIDEO ESSAY
By Joe Miller
“The truth is, even now I don’t feel I have a career in film,” acclaimed Argentine director Lucrecia Martel confesses in this mini biopic made from excerpts of interviews found on YouTube. Her life story is interwoven here with images of a train trestle over the Bermejo River near her hometown, Salta (some taken in 1925, when the bridge was young and sturdy, others from early 2020, when it was washed out in a flood) along with scenes from the heroine thread of El Úlitmo Malón [The Last Indian Attack] (1918, Argentina), a silent film set in the area around Santa Fe and Rosario.








